Long Distance Competition/Ultracycling, Randonneuring and Endurance CyclingDo you enjoy centuries, double centuries, brevets, randonnees, and 24-hour time trials? Share ride reports, and exchange training, equipment, and nutrition information specific to long distance cycling. This isn't for tours, this is for endurance events cycling

Also actively trying to recruit one of your team so I'm glad to hear you have a surplus.

I assume you mean Greg, which would be bad because he's the one that keeps us on schedule. I'm curious about his neighbor Jeff, who wasn't riding due to injury, but seems to be back now. At least, he ripped my legs off on a 100k last year.

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Randonneuring -- it's touring for people that aren't smart enough to stop for the night.
It's a wonderful sport when you can make up for a lack of ability with a lack of sleep

I assume you mean Greg, which would be bad because he's the one that keeps us on schedule. ....

Yes, that is correct. I will make sure he knows he's needed on your team.

(Anyone on this forum, reading this... please feel free to contact me if you might want to join my team for the PA Randonneurs fleche, April 20-22. You would need to get yourself to either Quakertown PA or Yonkers, NY on Friday April 20.)

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one year, I thought I was going to have to do that. I even reviewed the rules on two teams on the same route. Kept having people drop out. In the end, I think we had 4 riders that year. I forget how many #5's I had that dropped out. All of them, I guess.

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Randonneuring -- it's touring for people that aren't smart enough to stop for the night.
It's a wonderful sport when you can make up for a lack of ability with a lack of sleep

I submitted my new route to the RBA this morning. Looking forward to his thoughts! The route was mostly cooked up by other members of my team so it will be mostly new to me, which will be fun. But it also means I don't really know what I'm getting myself into.

Yes, that's who I'm with. Won't be dropping in on you, though, thanks for the offer! Starting in York, passing through Dillsburg, Thurmont, Williamsport, Hancock, Brunswick, Leesburg. Looks like a fun route, only one big climb, Catoctin Mountain just after Thurmont. We'll be riding a lot of roads I used to ride in the 80's.

On my first fleche, a couple years ago, our route passed right by my house, and we spent a half hour sitting around my kitchen table drinking coffee an hour before dawn; there was no conversation, unless you count "where's the bathroom" and "more coffee, please" and "time to go." With this in mind, I think I won't be visiting my parents when we pass within a quarter mile of their house Sunday morning, though I'm sure their dog would be happy to see us.

Over the course of the last day or two, the weather forecast has become increasingly encouraging.

__________________I put new leather on ruined saddles like Brooks, etc. You can reach me by private message.